According to the 2021 census, 58% of the people residing in Estonia don’t feel an affiliation to any religion, and this has increased from 54% in 2011; 29% are estimated to be affiliated with a religion and the most prevalent faith in Estonia is Orthodox Christianity.
The new corruption scandal in Kohtla-Järve, which came to the public's attention last week, reveals several loopholes in the law that businessman Nikolai Ossipenko has skillfully exploited, ERR's Viru County correspondent writes Rene Kundla.
The new corruption scandal in Kohtla-Järve, which came to the public's attention last week, reveals several loopholes in the law that businessman Nikolai Ossipenko has skillfully exploited, ERR's Viru County correspondent writes Rene Kundla.
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, essentially approved of the horrors and crimes committed in Ukraine by "brothers" from Russia in his sermon on September 25, and it is still unclear what Orthodox Christians living in Estonia think of Kirill's statements, writes in his commentary the Archbishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Urmas Viilma.